we'll go on to james lance taylor. is. >> i think he's muted. >> we can't hear him. >> chairman: can you unmute. >> clerk: both ms. brown and mr. taylor are unmuted. they will need to unmute themselves. >> chairman: okay. so, ms. brown. >> i'm here. >> chairman: okay. >> thank you, chair peskin. i want to take full advantage of my time. those children raised us up in long island, new york. when crack hit in the 80s, i fled to i came to california. i have been at usf for 20 years working. i worked in the community that entire time. i worked for every mayor from newsome to currently mayor breed. i wrote the legislation on record right now for san francisco for reparations. it's called the "slavery closure ordinance" me. ronda colters, al williams and the african american historical society wrote the legislation and it was adopted by the city attorney and his law. i also wrote a book that was rated the number one book on black politics. the national organization of black scholars. the national association of black scienti

we'll go on to james lance taylor. is. >> i think he's muted. >> we can't hear him. >> chairman: can you unmute. >> clerk: both ms. brown and mr. taylor are unmuted. they will need to unmute themselves. >> chairman: okay. so, ms. brown. >> i'm here. >> chairman: okay. >> thank you, chair peskin. i want to take full advantage of my time. those children raised us up in long island, new york. when crack hit in the 80s, i fled to i came to california. i have been at usf for 20 years working. i worked in the community that entire time. i worked for every mayor from newsome to currently mayor breed. i wrote the legislation on record right now for san francisco for reparations. it's called the "slavery closure ordinance" me. ronda colters, al williams and the african american historical society wrote the legislation and it was adopted by the city attorney and his law. i also wrote a book that was rated the number one book on black politics. the national organization of black scholars. the national association of black scienti

for seat one, james lance taylor. seat 2 tinisch hollins. seat 3 reverend brown. seat 5 rico hamlynnson. and seat 7 gloria berry. seat 8 daniel landry. seat 9 tiffany walker-carter. seat 10 gwen brown. seat 11 anietie ekanem. seat 12 starr williams and this was a difficult decision. seat 13 shakeyla o'cain. seat 14 laticia erving. and seat 15 yolanda harris. >> okay. why don't i now go to committee members. thank you, president walton, for that advice. very helpful. vice-chair or members, any comments? i can certainly restate what president walton said as a motion, but i'll turn it over to you. >> chair peskin, thank you. i just want to thank president walton for this work for him to make his recommendation today. i know there was a lot of hard work behind that. one of the first legislations that i worked on, in fact, you voted in support of was slavery era suppression. that was me learning about reparations and having mr. williams just school me all about it and start to recognize the fact that reparation has a much deeper meaning than simply money. it is the sys